Provider Feedback in Laboratory Stewardship
Speaker:
Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC; Jessie Conta, MS, LCGC
Contact Hours:
1.0
Date:
August 24, 2025 - August 31, 2027
Description:
Laboratory test utilization often gets a bad reputation for being too prescriptive and overly focused on cost. The collaborative approach of the recent antimicrobial stewardship movement provides an effective model for addressing these negative elements in traditional laboratory utilization management efforts. Rebranding as laboratory stewardship and focusing on this same type of collaborative, relationship-based approach to interventions can be a valuable tool to help your laboratory reduce costs and the number of unnecessary tests being performed. So how can your laboratory help ensure that clinicians order the most appropriate tests for their patients? Will providers be offended if you question their orders? And how do you manage providers who just want their tests performed, no questions asked?
Learning Objectives:
- Create a provider attitude survey, including two of the most important topics you should include.
- List three strategies for incorporating provider feedback into the development or modification of your laboratory’s stewardship program.